August 6, 2008 - At this date's Management Committee Meeting on the
ASI-MOO
chat room environment, officers and directors of the Society directed
President Peter Kokh to prepare an Annual Report on the State of the
Society for a first annual membership meeting to be held on Wednesday,
September 17th.

As a new feature in the Moon Society’s recent bylaws revision of
February 6th, as reported in MMM #212, February 2008, Moon Society
Journal Section (p.9), this year, on the third Wednesday evening of the
month after Society elections are finalized, we will launch our first
Annual Membership Meeting.

Save
Wednesday Evening, September 17th!

The meeting will be online, in the ASI-MOO special chat room
environment,

9-11
pm ET -- 8-10 pm CT -- 7-9 pm MT -- 6-8 pm PT

We realize
that this time window will not be convenient for many members.
But neither
would any other window. Why this particular
window?
This is the time
and day slot in which the Society’s Leadership Council, Management
Council, and Board of Directors meets.

Practice now! If your schedule makes attendance at this event possible,
and you have never been on the ASI-MOO, you will save yourself a lot of
frustration that evening, if you first practice loging on. It is quite
simple.

5 Wait for the window to fully open. Some browsers are faster than
others. Below the preliminary introductory text, you will see a line,
below which you can type.

6 Type these three words: connect (your) username password all in lower
case, each word separated by a space with no quotation marks.
Hit
carriage return

7 You will find yourself in the “Commons” Now you want to go to the
“Auditorium” where the Members Meeting will be held. The instructions
in the Commons say that the Auditorium is “NorthWest” so type
NorthWest without quotes and with capitals as indicated, then hit
carriage Return, and you should be in.

Most likely problem you will have is not knowing your username and
password. If this turns out to be the case, just contact me at president@moonsociety.org
and tell me what your problem is. If you prefer an answer by phone,
give me your phone # and best times to call in your email. We’ll get
you in, but do not wait until the last minute as I will be busy with
other things!

And this notice has been posted on the
Artemis-List as well as sent by email to all members, current and
former, with
current email addresses in our database. If you have changed your email
address, do call that to our attention! You many change it yourself at www.moonsociety.org/mymoon/
though you will need your username and password to access that page.
Otherwise simply email your current email address to president@moonsociety.org

Meeting Structure

The meeting will be chaired by Chairman of the Board, R. Scotty
Gammenthaler.

After a review of the contents of the Annual Report, the floor will be
open to questions from members. Members who plan to ask questions are
invited to submit them in advance to president@moonsociety.org as this
will help in bundling together related questions and responses.
However, this is not necessary and spontaneous questions are welcome.

Questions can be about problems with membership processing, response to
problems, current projects and new project ideas, the
overall direction of the society and suggestions in this regard,
membership benefits, how to grow the society in numbers, name
recognition, and project output, etc.

The Annual Report, as
prepared by the president, will cover;

Recent
bylaws changes

2008 elections results

Our Vision, Mission, and Strategy

Existing and proposed new projects

Our primary and auxiliary websites

Moon Miners’ Manifesto

Our affiliations and collaborations

The
treasurers report,

Awards of recognition for significant service to the
Society

Our plans to make the Society ever more effective, and
more.

To the Curious: -
If you are reading this and are not a current member, by all means so
join or rejoin. We will be most happy to benefit from your ideas and
energies and initiatives.

A Learning Experience:
We have never held an annual Membership Meeting before and so this will
necessarily be one of those “leaning experiences.” But even before the
curtain falls on this first one, if you have ideas for features that
should be included, don’t wait to share them with us. We want this
first meeting to be as comprehensive as possible.

Other Preparations:
We have been working on a Questionnaire, asking current and former
members how they first heard of the Moon Society. We hope that the
results of this survey will help us better direct our efforts to grow
the Society. We hope to get this out soon.

Quarterly Town Meetings?
This is another but related idea that we have been considering –
holding an online Town Meeting quarterly (three a year plus the Annual
Meeting) and probably rotating the day of the week on which it is held.
The idea would be to elicit continuous feedback and to provide more
opportunities to participate.